Commercial Finance Manager American Liberty Division, Bolingbrook, IL

Overview

The Commercial Finance Manager is responsible for financial planning and execution, focusing on optimizing pricing strategies and driving profitability alongside local finance leadership and commercial teams. This role involves detailed financial modeling, market analysis, and collaboration with local and regional cross-functional teams to support strategic decision-making.

Primary Responsibilities

• Conduct financial forecasting and planning, including volume trend analysis.
• Support the development of local pricing strategies to gain share while ensuring compliance and evaluating effectiveness / internal profitability.
• Monitor and report on business performance against financial targets, using various data sources to provide analysis required for internal/external business reviews.
• Collaborate with commercial teams to develop gap-closing strategies and investment opportunities.
• Utilize financial tools and technologies (enterprise standard tools as well as third party tools such as Nielsen) to enhance analytical capabilities.
• Proactively manage fund balances through spend analysis vs. budgets.
• Enable the development of finance talent through building capabilities while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree plus at least three years of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Knowledge of finance and accounting practices, financial analysis, and reporting
• Experience with P&L responsibility, financial planning, and pricing management in the CPG industry; or related work experience with an industry supplier and wholesaler

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

Nearest Major Market

Chicago